Quotes About Diplomacy

Diplomasi adalah mengatakan hal yang paling buruk dengan cara yang paling manis.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Sometimes, honesty really wasn't the best policy. Or, at least, it wasn't the kindest policy.

War ... has become impossible, except at the price of suicide.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I don't want to destroy too many illusions. We're walking a tightrope. If you fall on one side it's no good, because we're showing too much. If you fall on the other side it's no good, because we're not showing anything and we look like arrogant jerks.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

1) the commitment to ending the war successfully at the earliest possible moment; (2) the need to justify the effort and expense of building the atomic bombs; (3) the hope of achieving diplomatic gains in the growing rivalry with the Soviet Union; (4) the lack of incentives not to use atomic weapons; and (5) hatred of the Japanese and a desire for vengeance.

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

After 20 years of climate diplomacy, the undeniable fact is that the three main factors that have reduced GHG emissions are, in increasing importance: global recession, the collapse of communism, and China's one child policy. The Rio dream is over.

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Wars happen because states are uncertain about each others' intentions and capabilities, and because states cannot sign binding agreements by which they agree not to attack each other.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

without President Kennedy's knowledge, and, brandishing the might of the United States

It's going to be hard to stop this process. The generals are itching for a fight.134 They want to go." The message that Khrushchev took from Dobrynin's account was that if this crisis continued to escalate, Kennedy might well face a coup.

I believe that each leader was—contrary to his public declarations, and in Kennedy's case, secretly from almost all his advisors—determined, to the extent that he had control over events, not to go to war, not to permit armed conflict to arise between American and Soviet forces under any circumstances.